Across Southern California, Chinese immigrant mothers are raising young children amid sky-high childcare costs, thin safety ...

Chinese immigrant mothers in Southern California seeking care face language barriers, billing fights and fear of using public benefits. Many instead are turning to community clinics and informal ...

Ninety-nine year old Ronghui Ye lives in a senior housing complex subsidized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban ...

The quality of care can vary vastly between two clinics only 20 miles apart. Adrienne Bryant learned this the hard way after ...

A veteran storyteller draws on a lifetime of covering wildfires and other climate disasters. "The important stories that we ...

Around 400,000 Californians could lose their health coverage if Congress fails to extend federal health subsidies before the ...

Even after the 43-day government shutdown ended late on the night of November 12th, thousands of low-income families still reel from the weeks-long disruption to their most basic lifeline: Food. In ...

Luis Melecio-Zambrano is a journalist covering Cupertino, Milpitas and Sunnyvale for The Mercury News. They previously covered South Santa Clara county as a California Local News Fellow and before ...

I am a freelance opinion writer and my lived experience of being incarcerated informs my work. I was the first incarcerated person to have a regular byline in a publication outside the prison. That ...

I'm the health reporter at The Public's Radio in Rhode Island. Woonsocket, Rhode Island is a former mill city with the state’s highest per capita rate of drug overdose death. A reporter shares how she ...